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This site contains over 2,000 news articles, legal briefs and publications related to for-profit companies that provide correctional services. Most of the content under the "Articles" tab below is from our Prison Legal News site. PLN, a monthly print publication, has been reporting on criminal justice-related issues, including prison privatization, since 1990. If you are seeking pleadings or court rulings in lawsuits and other legal proceedings involving private prison companies, search under the "Legal Briefs" tab. For reports, audits and other publications related to the private prison industry, search using the "Publications" tab.

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Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Naphcare’s Lack of Care Leads to $26.75 Million Verdict for Washington Jail Death by “The jury sent a strong message that Naphcare’s conduct was completely unacceptable,&rdquo ...
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
. Knowlton, Powers filed suit in federal court for the District of Arizona against DOC Director David Shinn and other officials, as well as Corizon Health, Centurion of Arizona, MHM Health Professionals ...
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
$450,000 Settlement to Illinois Prisoner Whose Untreated Boil Left Him Paraplegic by Harold Hempstead by Harold Hempstead On August 17, 2021, after the IllinoisDepartment of Corrections (DOC) paid $450,000 to settle claims of medical neglect that cost him the use of his legs, a state prisoner successfully petitioned a federal …
distribution and theft. The jail, managed by Ruston-based LaSalle Management Company, was earlier the site where a handicapped detainee was allegedly neglected and mistreated by staff of previous operator ...
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
After Sixth Death in Six Years, Virginia Jail Cuts Ties with Corizon Health by Jayson Hawkins, Keith Sanders Corizon Employee Charged with Falsifying Records by Jayson Hawkins and Keith ...
Rodesky v. Wexford, IL, Jury Verdict, Medical Neglect, 2021 1:15-cv-01002-JEH # 161 Page 1 of 2 E-FILED Saturday, 04 December, 2021 09:09:43 AM Clerk, U.S. District Court, ILCD JURY VERDICT FORM 1. We, the jury, find as follows on Plaintiffs Eighth Amen dment claim against Randy Pfister: (Place an 11X …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
$23,000 Settlement Against Pennsylvania Dental Healthcare Company for Inadequate Dental Care by Charles Talbert settled with Correctional Dental Associates (CDA) and Dental Practitioner Dr. Schneider for $23,000 in a lawsuit brought by him for inadequate dental treatment while housed in the Philadelphia Department of Prisons (PDP). While being held in …
Brief • July 16, 2021
And that Defendants changed the monitoring reports without a valid explanation. 8 A January 26, 2017, telephonic hearing was held regarding Corizon’s inaccurate 9 audit/review process. And again the most recent ...
Article • July 1, 2021 • from PLN July, 2021
Illinois Prisoner’s Negligence Lawsuit Alleging Injuries from Wart Treatment Timely Filed by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the dismissal of state law negligence claims based upon a prisoner being forced to self-apply a medication that was not supposed to be dispensed …
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Brightly v. Corizon, 9th Circuit, Appellant Opening Brief, Medical Neglect, 2021 No. 21-16321 __________________________________________________________________ IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS ...
Brightly v. Corizon, 9th Circuit, Appellant Reply Brief, Medical Neglect, 2021 No. 21-16321 __________________________________________________________________ IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS ...
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:rectional Officer Steven Jones, Correctional Officer Andrew Fe~ther, Co11·ectional Officer Victor Wallace, Nurse Ashley Harringto~; Nurse Practitioner Martha Champlin, Warden D. Edward McFadden, PrimeCare ...
Reuters Investigation: Lamentable Medical Care in Jails and Prisons Exposed During Pandemic by Casey Bastian by Casey Bastian Very few criminal offenses in America allow for a sentence of death. Nevertheless, too many people are dying in jails and prisons while serving a sentence or simply waiting for the process …
) and their private prison contractor, the GEO Group, for their lies to the court and “abominable performance” in protecting immigrant detainees from COVID-19 at the Mesa Verde Detention Center near ...
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Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
. Suspecting infection, the nurse spoke to Dr. Vipin Shah, who worked for the prison’s medical contractor, Wexford Health Services, Inc. Shah prescribed penicillin by mouth twice a day for five days ...
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